Ben is currently the Campaigns and EL Officer for OULC.  He writes a regular blog that can be accessed here. Like John Major, David Cameron’s has found his European policy needlessly derailed by his own party. Unlike Sir John, a weak Mr Cameron has given his backbenchers almost what they wanted at each stage but ultimately [...]

Ben is currently the Campaigns and EL Officer for OULC.  He writes a regular blog that can be accessed here. After the 2012 local elections, the Conservatives were belittling gains of 824 council seats on the grounds that William Hague led the Conservatives to 1,344 gains in the 1999 local elections only to be defeated in [...]

What made you join the Labour Party, and why have you chosen to run for an elected position in the EU? Coming from the Rhondda, daughter of a miner, I have always been Labour. Being at Oxford brought home the inequality however, not just between the two areas but within Oxford itself on opposite sides [...]